Amdahl’s law
amdahl’s law
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(named after gene amdahl) if f is the fraction of a calculation that is sequential, and (1-f) is the fraction that can be parallelised, then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using p processors is 1/(f+(1-f)/p).
[gene amdahl, “validity of the single processor approach to achieving large-scale computing capabilities”, afips conference proceedings, (30), pp. 483-485, 1967].
(2002-10-16)
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